Ustrive is a commerce platform that integrates with other social networking sites enabling the user to monetize his or her media across services like YouTube, Photobucket and Flickr. Bob Schobert (CEO) and Mike Fleet (lead developer) share their experience in developing Ustrive and offer advice to avoid some of the pitfalls of working with contract developers. Ustrive officially launched their site this morning - big thanks to Bob and Mike for squeezing in this interview given the timing. Start a dialogue with them via the comments link below.

The three original founders of Leadbot.com (Bill Ramsey, Rob McAleer and Ben Wagner) share their experience of building an online brokerage for quality financial services leads. From a grim morning of a catastrophic data loss where they were forced to serve their web site off of a laptop to a record-breaking seven-figure year of revenues for ‘06, Leadbot is a come-back story of a startup business that has overcome adversity and firmly established itself as a reputable company with loyal customers. Their core belief: for even most tech-oriented businesses, the success factor comes down to the focus on the human elements and the relationships you build with your customers.

You can learn more about Leadbot through the Leadbot web site and you can leave comments for the founders here in the comment section.

Lon played the instrumental role in founding the now $5.3BN Assistive Technology Industry and in his interview shares his view of innovation and stories on the inception of this technology which began in 1984. Many of Lon’s inventions were the archetypes to what we now know of as the Dragon Naturally Speaking product, the original Newton (pda) O.S., “Tool Tips”, X-10 Powerhouse, and Microsoft’s Bob O.S.

From paper models to garden hoses to AI and now the Smithsonian, Lon has had an interesting career. He believes that anyone can train his/her mind to see opportunities and deficiencies and think like an Innovator using what he calls “The Three C’s.”

Read more from Lon on his web site, follow along on his blog and see his collection in the Smithsonian. Lon will also represent “The Inventor” at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists held in Chicago this August. Questions for Lon regarding this podcast? Ask away via the comment link.

Patrick Sullivan was founder and CEO of ACT! Software and Saleslogix CRM, two companies that arguably produced the most popular installable contact management and CRM software products in existence. Pat joined us to share his experiences in building both companies from scratch and what he learned along the way. Pat is now venturing outside of tech into the realm of health and continuing his phillosophy of “scratching an important itch” by building Jigsaw Health, a company dedicated to helping people put together the pieces of their own wellness puzzle. You can leave questions and feedback for Pat in the comments section of this post or you can read more from him on his blog.

Below is a linked schedule of the first ever Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference that occurred on November 8th, 2006 at the Ritz Carlton in Phoenix, AZ. The individual download links will give you the mp3 audio files for each session and the streaming links will play the audio immediately via your web browser. You can download a single zip file of all conference audio here (763MB - 14hrs). There are photos from the conference available here, video interviews with conference attendees here and you can leave comments and questions for the presenters here via the comments link below. Special thanks to Deru Internet for donating the bandwidth to make this audio freely available.

Fred Mapp, forty-year technology veteran and ex-CIO of Honeywell, American Express and AMD joins us to share his experience from serving as an executive at those companies. Fred tells us about his seven-step program he’s developed for getting the most value from your information technology in any business. Fred will send an autographed copy of his book “Mapping IT” to the listener that chimes in with the best question or insight from his interview. You can leave your feedback in the comments section below.

Jason joins us to share his experience in creating iTOOL. As founder and CTO of this Scottsdale-based startup back in ‘98, he created the initial code for iTOOL in the off-hours around his then full-time job as a music teacher. iTOOL was eventually sold to Onvia at the peak of the dotcom boom for $22mm in stock. Jason gives wonderful insight on the lessons he learned from the experience and how he’s applied these lessons to his business dealings since. He also gives us a peek at what he’s doing with his Groove Cellar music studio. Leave questions for Jason here in the comments below.

LaSean Smith, one of the original founders of now-defunct startup Africa.com joins us to discuss the rise and fall of that company. LaSean has had an interesting career since Africa.com returning to grad school to get his MBA, dabbling in the music industry and now working to develop mobile media products for Motorola. We’ve reposted the article LaSean mentions about Africa.com in his interview here. You can read more from LaSean on his personal site and ask him questions in the comment field of this post.

Brad Webb, CTO of vSocial and one of the company’s original co-founders joined us recently to share his experience in stepping into the company in its infancy and shaping its technical and strategic vision to help bring it to its current state today. vSocial is a major player in the competitive video social networking space and has established a niche that allows it to peacefully co-exist with video giants like YouTube. You listen to the audio from the interview below, leave questions for Brad here in the comments section and read more from him on his personal blog here. Also our podcast is now available in the iTunes store via the link in the “subscribe” section above.

Joan Koerber-Walker joins us to talk about her experience in building her current company, CorePurpose, Inc. and how she helps other companies excel by focusing on their core competencies. Joan briefly recounts the genesis of CorePurpose and her time at Avnet and then delves into some of the philosophy and decision-making tools in use at her company. She also shares the inside scoop on the upcoming Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference coming in early November.